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PKK feud with Turkey is 'coming to an end'
(MENAFN- Arab News) ISTANBUL: The outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party's 30-year conflict with Turkey is coming to an end the group's jailed leader said on Saturday hailing the start of a new democratic process in the country.
The PKK which for three decades fought the Turkish authorities in a bloody insurgency seeking greater autonomy for Turkey's Kurdish minority launched its armed struggle with coordinated attacks on police and security forces on Aug. 15 1984.
But the group's jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan said in a statement from his prison island of Imrali on the Sea of Marmara that Turkey was now on the verge of 'historic developments' after its Aug. 10 presidential elections.
'On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of our struggle I want to state that we are on the verge of historic developments' Ocalan said in a statement quoted by the Firat news agency which is close to the PKK.
'This 30-year-long war is through a major democratic negotiation at the stage of coming to an end.'
The PKK which for three decades fought the Turkish authorities in a bloody insurgency seeking greater autonomy for Turkey's Kurdish minority launched its armed struggle with coordinated attacks on police and security forces on Aug. 15 1984.
But the group's jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan said in a statement from his prison island of Imrali on the Sea of Marmara that Turkey was now on the verge of 'historic developments' after its Aug. 10 presidential elections.
'On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of our struggle I want to state that we are on the verge of historic developments' Ocalan said in a statement quoted by the Firat news agency which is close to the PKK.
'This 30-year-long war is through a major democratic negotiation at the stage of coming to an end.'
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